That’s what happened when one of the world’s most respected news organizations, The Associated Press...
Posted on 03/23/2021 9:24:36 AM PDT by ransomnote
Journalism is all about access. To get the scoop, reporters must first get in. But some access comes with a price—and when totalitarian states hold the keys, ethical lines can be crossed. That’s what happened when one of the world’s most respected news organizations, The Associated Press, traded its editorial control for access to Nazi Germany during World War II, writes Philip Oltermann for the Guardian.
Oltermann reports on a German historian’s new revelations that the Associated Press entered into “a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime” during the Nazi era. Harriet Scharnberg, a German historian, writes in the German academic journal Studies in Contemporary History that in return for continued access to Nazi Germany, the AP agreed not to publish any material that would weaken the regime. She claims that the AP hired four Nazi photographers, including one named Franz Roth whose photographs were hand-selected by Hitler himself, and that the AP’s photo archives were used to make anti-Semitic propaganda.
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That access put the AP in a powerful position: Because it was the only game in town, it could report on things no outsider could see. But in return, claims Scharnberg, the AP submitted to the Nazis’ restrictive Schriftleitergesetz (“editor’s law”). Within Germany, the law put all newspapers and media outlets under Nazi control. It contained a clause that forbade reports that tended to “weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly,” or that offended “the honor and dignity of Germany.” The result, writes Scharnberg, were images and stories that had “propagandistic intention[s].”
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Plus ça change...
Which came first? The Associated Press (aka The Ape Pee) or the Nazi propaganda machine?
Where’s the AntiFa when and where they are needed?
CNN traded “editorial control” to Saddam Hussein in order to “get access” to Iraq. And never told their audience that they were functioning as the Bath Party’s propaganda mouthpiece.
That’s what happened when one of the world’s most respected news organizations, The Associated Press...
On page 123 he wrote:
“It will not be necessary for any one to fight again against the proposal of a censorship of the press.
We do not need a censorship of the press.
We have a censorship by the press."
The AP never stopped. The American press has been carrying the water for evil since the 1910s.
That!
Some things never changed. AP should have a swastika as their logo.
The “Associated Press” has always been Nazi on the sly, even before then.
It may have started in WWII but it never ceased since starting.
Both are one and the same.
Yep, and they ALL still are!!
True enough. but what gave Nazis the idea that The Ape Pee could be used and trusted? They couldn’t’ve just taken a flyer. There must have been a track record for them rely on to have such faith.
Like today with stories about Red China, or DC and the coup.
Watch the movie “Mr. Jones”. About 1984, Gareth Jones and George Orwell.
It it a carbon copy of how western governments and media deal with communist China and for the exact same reasons, for trade and because they are supposedly the vanguard of the future.
Because the “Associated Press” was the forerunner (the “Associated Press” was operating in America first as supposed “news”, etc.) of the Nazi propaganda, etc. machines.
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Left wing media never changes they are part of the Fabian society agenda.
Bkmk
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